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All rostered crew members who work on a car this season must wear roster patches. Photo by MATT WEAVER | AUTOWEEK

NASCAR releases first at-track rosters for The Clash at Daytona

The league intends to cut travel costs and spotlight entire teams

February 10, 2018

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NASCAR released on Saturday the rosters for the Cup Series Clash at Daytona.

New for the 2018 season are rosters that mimic stick-and-ball sports. Typically, each team is allowed 20 combined road crew members, including five over-the-wall pit crew members. For the Clash, those teams are allowed four extra crew members this weekend, but must return to 20 before Daytona 500 week starts on Monday.

Each Cup Series organization will get three or four organizational at-track roster slots, depending on whether they are a one-two or three-four car squad. Each roster member must be assigned a number and letter based on position, which must be visible at all times on both the team uniform and on armbands. (See above photo.) This is similar to World Rally Championship regulations, which allow only a set number of crew members to touch the cars in between stages. Those members must have an ankle band on or be in violation of the rules.

Communications positions such as media relations representatives are exempt.

It’s also worth noting that organizations can share crew members, regardless of if they are on each car's respective rosters. In other words, crew members from the Hendrick Motorsports No. 48 team CAN help the No. 24 team even if they are not listed on both organizational depth charts.

Similarly, technical alliances will be preserved with this format, but a crew member listed on the Joe Gibbs No. 18 can only work on the Furniture Row No. 78 if he or she is listed on both organizational depth charts.

Rosters can be configured up until the moment the garage opens.

The complete roster for all 17 teams in the Advance Auto Parts Clash at Daytona can be viewed below.